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TOT WZWSPAPEB MAW. Ha vtdora in hxndaumr or natty. And ha none of therhiirma of the luw, Js oft morf ttbHifactfd than chatty. And aomvtimpn untxurably rude. He court us, then alight uk and grieve A mm h as he pnaaibly ran: H" kiaar u, loves'us and leaves ua, Thla prfldlouH newspaper man. Our, mother won t have him dime rall Bn:, He' no earthly rood en a "Vatr-h;" HI moral (they any) arc apnallliiK: Hla finances usually match. U'a rollicking, mklwn, uncaring-. Uvea but for the hour, ne day; Jle'a dana-eroua. duhioua. daring;. Not fit for a husband, they say. But somehow we glrla are forgiving. J'erhat.a hrUit need sg .the. .mure Ileraus he (. wrong In the living And known the old world to tta tore. 8o we pan up the dude and the m hrmrr, Who lead In society's van. And cherish the thinker and dreamer Knchrlned In the newspaper mnn. (Marie M. Hemclreet .In The itlue An- cll Magazine), CORDELIA. BY FRANK H. SWEKT. Copyright. IWi. by Authors' Syndicate.) CORDELIA HACKETT was out mending her fence. This wag nothing UDUHiial, for the fence had a habit of needing mending, and for many a long year there had been no one but Cordelia to do it, and. in fact, to do all the mending and tend ing and baking and making fur th? hun gry Hai kett family. She had (smoothed the way down into the valley for her poor, paralytic father, and had paved the way up the bill of life and Into an education for her brothers and sisters, and was now thinking of performing the aame office for the motherless chil dren of on older half-brother. Tap, tap. tap, rang Cordelia's hammer as she went along the fence, straighten ing a slanting picket here and driving a fresh nail In place of a rusty one there; and tap. tap, tap, sounded firm, approaching footnteps on the sidewalk. But the artist of the hammer did not notice. Her thoughts were busy in re viewing the past and In making plans for the future. The week before, her youngest brother had gone out into the world to make a place for himself, and now she was alone for the first time In her life. She had thought to remal.i In her pretty, vine-covered cottage and read and study and do Just what she liked But only this morning a letter h;ul come from her brother John, In viting her to live with him and look after his children. Well, of course she would go; but It was with a sharp pang she made the decision. Presently the nails gave out. and she rose with the Intention of going after more. But as she did so she saw the figure of a man leaning on her gate, and a pair of keen, quizzing eyes were looking straight Into her own. An angry flush rose to her face, but wag quickly suceeded by a look of pleased recognition. "For the land sake, Tom Rogers!' she tried, as she stepped forward and gave him ber hand, "who ever thought to see ; you here? And with such whiskers.! Why, 1 declare, I scarcely knew you! Left see, )fg ten years since you went out West?" "Twelve, Cordelia, twelve," he said, umllingly. "You remember It was the year after father sold his farm. That was in 'J9 Lizzie White had a lawn party the evening before I left." "Yes, 1 remember," giving him an arch look. "You went home with Sudie Adams, and folks did say" "Oh, pshaw, Cordelia," he remon strated; "you and Sudie were together, and I started to go home with both of you, but that little Ed Purcell came up, and you went off with him " Then, with sudden consternation: "I I beg your pardon. You ain't married to him, are you?" "Not yet," placidly, "lie comes by every few months and sort o' beats 'round the bush. But. you see, I've had nil I could put hy hands to without thinking o' such mings." Then, with a gay, ringing laugh; "But lets talk eenslble, Tom. I gave up marryin' years ago. How are you gettln' on out West? When did you come, and how long are you goln' to stay?" "Just got In, and you're the first per 'on I've talked to," he answered. "I .ppesnd to feme this say. snd thought '1 stop for old-tlme'g sake. You've got nighty flowery place. Cordelia. "Yes, I like It. Hut won't you comeithlid asked for some sweets, and her and git on the piazza while I make le cool lemonade? Ifg pesky hot here." ;Vin't mind if I do," with alacrity, iln't In no particular hurry, and if piazzy looks right cool an- invlt And, besides, I'd like to ask a lot uestions about the boys and girls; t they are doing, and who's married ; who ain't." Two rocking chairs were placed op hite each other on the piazza, and lie Cordelia was making the lemon Tom gazed around with boylHh de it. The piazza was screened from . road by honeysuckles and wistarias, -,nd he could count at least a dozen bi-tterfilft sailing contentedly about. ' '"tost in reach of his hand was a In'g nest, and aa he raised himself .Khtly to look at the eggs, the owner gan to scold him from one of the .ifters overhead. "Just exactly like It was 12 years ago," he murmured, delightedly. "And, on my soul, I believe that's the same old bird that used to scold me so terri bly. There, there, there!" as the robbln redoubled her cries; "that Isn't the way to welrome a friend. I won't hurt your eggs." Here Cordelia came out with the lem onade and a small stand, which the placed between the two chairs. "There, help yourself!" the tald. "Now tell me how you've been gettln' on out West " ' k , "Oh. 'Jet toler'ble,' as they say out President Jordan and the other mem berg of the faculty of Inland Stanford, Jr., University, California, have adopt ed resolutions of regret at the recent death of the Rev, Dr. Horatio Stebblnt, late of San Francisco, and a member of the board of trusteeg of the university. They aay that In timet of darkness and uncertainty he never lost faith, and his advice was alwayt tane and cheering, and that In losing him the public of the Pacific rttt "lotet a force making for rlghti otitnest that can 111 be tpared, and the unlvenlty lotet one of the most helpful, hopeful and tteadfaat of Ita there," he replied. laughing. "Only In my case, the "jeg" toler'ble' means first rate. I started as a cowboy, and then bought a few head of tattle and some land, and after that pushed ahead 9ift ty steady. I was always hardworking, and so got on faster than tome of my neighbors. After awhile a railroad came through, and a village started up less than three miles from my place. That boosted me right to the top. Now, I've got as pretty a ranch as there is west of the Missouri." "Why. that's splendid!" she fried, her faro glowing with pleasure. "I'm awful glad you're doin' to well. Polks around here have an idea that you've been sort of runnln' out" "How came they to get such a no tion .' cautiously. "Well, 1 I believe Ed Purcell spoke oi it in the first place." Ed Purcell!" Tom rose to his feet In suddcij wrath. Then he sat down with a smothered laugh. "The mean liar! He didn't know the first thing of wnat ve been doing. You didn't be lieve him, Cordelia?" She looked distressed. "How could I help it, Tom?" she fal tered, hd said he got letters from you on and on, and I didn't suppose he would ten a story." Then, with an ef fort to change the subject: "Did you oring your family along?" "Family?" "Yes, your wife and children?" He gazed sharply at her for a roo ment to see If she was in earnest: then he threw himself back in his chair with a sudden burst of laughter. "Did Ed tell you that?" be asked, ag soon as he could get his breath. "Well he s a dandy, he is. And did you be lieve it? She did not answer, but he could see from her changing countenance and averted eyes that she had believed it. "Ixok here, Cordelia," he said, ab ruptly. "what do you suppose 1 came nark for? "To look around to see your rela tions, perhaps," she answered, hesi tatingly. "My relations are all out West. Fa ther and Brother Jake went there soon after I did. No, it was on account of this, taking a small slip of paper from his pocket and handing it to her. "Jake takes the home paper, and sometimes I look it over. Iast week I happened to see tnig Item. Read It." She did so, mechanically. "We understand that our esteemed fellow-townsman, Paul Hackett. has ob tained a lucrative position in the city and that he will soon depart for the scene of his future labors. This will leave his sister. Miss Cordelia, to keep house alone- "I don't see much In that," she said, as she handed back the paper. "Well, I do. Anyhow, it brought me here." His voice had suddenly grown eager, while her gaze fell beneath his, while her face began to flush. "Listen, Cordelia. When I was returning that night, after I had gone home with Sadie Adams, I met Ed Purcell. I felt more like pitching into the bushes than talk ing. but the fellow was so friendly and soft-spoken that I was obliged to stop through mere civility. He spoke about the weather and the party, and then fold me that you and he were engaged. I never liked the scamp, but I didn't suppose he would tell a He. The next day I started West." Cordelia was standing now, her face flushed and her eyes blazing. "Engaged to Ed Purcell!" she gasped. "Oh. Tom! you didn t believe that?" "How could I help it?" he answered, grimly, repeating her words of a few minutes before. "I didn't suppose he would tell a story. Then all the anger mm gritnnens leu ins iace, una ub iib held out his errns the tenderness of 12 years' repression came tremulously Into his voice. "Cordelia, darling, will you go back with me?" She made a shy step forward, then hesitated. "There's John and the children," she raid. "Brother John and the children! He's well to do and can find somebody else to look after them. Will you come?" The flush grew deeper on her face, but her voice was clear and Arm ag she answered: "Yes, Tom." Sol Smith Russell's Niece. Sol. Smith Russell had three young nelces living out West, and he was very fond of them. One day, while visiting his brother s. jeweler in Kattss fitv he took the youngest of the trio to walk. As they passed a candy shop the uncle acquiesced, only on condition that shn would not eat any until they got home. She promised and was given the candy. Then they started home. "I;t'a wun." said the child, pleading ly, to her dignified, Lincolnlc uncle. "No, my dear, It Isn't nice to run," he answered. "Oh. let's do wun!" she coaxed. Again he refused. Then the chubby little hand squirmed from his and. drop ping (iown on her knees right on the pavement, she scorned the passing peo ple and In a clear little voice prayed: "Oh. Hod, p'ease make Undo Sol wun! " "It was simply a question of my los ing my dignity or her losing her faith In Ood," said the actor In after years, "so we ran aa fast as we could. But we walked together no more." Philadel phia Times. Turned Oirl't Headt. "Do you see the tall chap, Pctro? Well, he has turned many a girl's head." "But he Is neither handsome nor rich" "1 know that" "Then how did he turn girls' heads?" "With hit preparations. He manu factures hair bleach." Philadelphia Record. Watchdogs are to be placed on night duty with the watchmen in the Louvre Museum, Paris One In the Dark. "Beware," tald the fortune-teller, "of a tall, dark roan." "You are trying to black male me!" faltered the fair young maid. In a letter to the Provincial Journal Edwin C. Pierce calls attention to the fact that Exeter, Charlestown, West Greenwich, Harrington and Little Compton, an aggregate population of 4.7H9, have aa many votes in the Rhode Island tenate at the five cities of Prov idence, Pawtucket. Woonioeket, New port and Central Falls, aggregate popu lation nzjn Knowledge of Human Nature Necessary to a Preacher T Is not a man's study of theology that makeg him a great preach er," said a minister of the gos pei, who spoke with the assur ance of a man who is a decided success in his profession, "but it is his experi ence and knowledge of human nature. "From the moment a man graduates from the theological college to the end of hla career as clergyman his experi ences are worth recording. - "Really I think my most ridiculous experience, or, rather, the experience showing the most peculiar specimen of human nature, occurred about two years ago. I had officiated at a funeral, and the grieving husband assured me that he wished to pay me something for my services, and would come to see me in the course of a few weeks. I pro tested, but thought no more of it. "Six months later he appeared in my home, accompanied by a lady. He said he wished to marry the young woman, and so I tied the knot. Then he asked me to go out into the hall, and he hand ed me a $10 bill, saying: " 'Say, is that enough for both jobs?' "Let me tell you of a cage which sounds like the tale of a revivalist. One stormy winter's night, when the con gregation was small, I preached a ser mon on honesty. "After the service a stranger, who had been sitting in one of the back seats, agked me if he might have a lit tle talk with me. I consented, and took him into my study. "He said that my sermon had stirred him all up; that several years ago he had told a falsehood, committed a dis honest act, and had thereby got posses sion of a large sum of money. He said neither his employer nor any one else knew of his dishonesty, but that he had not had a comfortable moment for all these years. "He was engaged to a spirited young woman, and was about to be married. He wanted me to determine for him whether he should go to his employer, make a clean breast of the matter, and then tell his betrothed, and leave it to her to break or keep the engagement, as she saw fit. "I talked with him a long while and advised him to clear up the whole affair. I told him that if he did not his mar riage would mean nothing to him, as he could not possibly be as good a husband with such a cloud hanging over him, and that probably it would change his whole temperament bo that he would not be lovable. I advised him to get the whole thing off his conscience. "Two weekg after I had a letter from him from a far part of the country. He wrote that he had told his employer, lost his place, ruined his reputation, lost his sweetheart, but now he was having a rest that he had not been able to enjoy for years. He said that It near ly broke his heart to give up his lady love, but that some day he might ask another woman to marry him, and then he could ask her to marry an honest man. Real Tragedies Encountered. "But think of what a heavy responsi bility the man put on me in asking me what course he should pursue. "We run across real tragedies every once in a while and some of guch a na ture that they eat Into our very soul and you never can give up sorrowing over them- One wild rainy night a be drnrirted woman came to my home. "She wag wet through, her hair was flying down her back and around her face and her garments were worn and frayed. When I came into the room she was squeezing her bands together until you could hear the bones crack. "'Do you know who I am?' she asked. "1 told her I did not. Then she asked me If I remembered reading in the pa pers about a woman killing ber hus band, and said she was that woman. "I remembered the newspaper story. The provocation for the murder had been so great that the grand Jury would not Indict her. She was in a fearful state, half crazy, r.ot because she had murdered her hus band, but because she believed she had sent him Into eternity without a chance for repentance and salvation. She be lieved that by repentance her crime would be forgiven her, but she could not get over the Idea that she had taken away all chance of salvation from her husband. "I reasoned with the woman and prayed with her and told her that the question of salvation did not He In her hands, but. In the hands of the Ever Just One and that he would grant mer cy where It was deserved and that we mortals could not shape such things. "I got the woman quieted and In a saner frame of mind and I believed that I had settled the nuestlon for her. A month later I picked up the newspaper and saw that they had found her and her children dead In bed with both gas burners turned on. Evidently she had become crazy over the subject and could not stand It any longer. Annoyed by Anonymoua Letters. "Do you know that anonymous letters are the bane of a clergyman's life? A neighbor of mine went crazy simply because of such letters. He had re ceived so many threatening his life and also demanding blackmail that he did not dare to go out on the streets and Anally became Insane. "Generally these lettera are not a scheme for money, but are pure devil ment on the part of the writer. Of course, we get all sorts of criticism In these letters and numerous suggestions. The only way to dispose of such letten it to threw them Into the tire at once. "The criticisms which a minister mutt stand directly from hit congrega tion are often most irritating, hut a Methodist friend of mine got the better of one old fault-finder. The minister's views were a little more liberal than were allowed by that denomination at that time. I He had received warning that he wat thought to be tomethlng of a here tic, to he became very careful, hit ser mons were a model of Methodism, but he let himself out in hla prayers. When he offered these petltlont he prayed for everything and everybody and wot at liberal as possible, "The elders liked hla aertnont, but moved around uneasily when he prayed. Finally one of the eldert wat appointed to visit the mlnltter and protest. " 'You are preaching herety,' tald the elder. 'Will you pleaee point out In what J sernon I have shown myself a heretic?' asked the minister. " 'Well, it hssn't been exactly in your sermons,' said the elder. " 'Do I preach heresy when I read the BiMe?' inquired the minister. " 'Certainly not,' was the reply, 'but you are a heretic in your prayers.' " 'See here,' flashed forth the minis ter, 'I'm not saying my prayers to you, but to the Lord. So long as he does not object I shall keep righc on praying just as I have been doing.' "Talking about herfsy, a young Con gregationallst minister who was slow ly turning Unitarian had a funny ex perience. There was a meeting after the weekly prayermeeting to pronounce judgment on him. He wag asked to be present and consented. "Some of the church members de nounced the minister's changing views and some declared for him. Suddenly a little woman began to rock back and forth and sob. " My creed, my creed, you mustn't take away my creed.' "A Bister with snapping black eyes look' d at the sobbing wo?nan in disgust for a minut and then jerked out: " 'Do behave yourself. Who wants your creed, anyway?' "Sometimes when T pick up a maga zine or a new work of Action I vow that I will write my own experiences and they will be much inore exciting than any navel written, but ministers have lit tie time for such writing." THE BEE'8 ECONOMY. It it One of the Mott Wonderful Things in Animated Nature. "It is as certain as anything can be that at one time the bee was simply male and female. The irresponsible male buzzed about getting his own liv ing, marrying and dying. The responsi ble female not only got her own living, but that of her children. Somehow, they tame to see the advantage of com munal effort, and, just as women say now: 'If you'll wash the dishes, I'll wipe 'em,' one female bee said to the others: '''11 be the mother if you'll get the living.' It was a bargain, and they took the drones to board. Some body had to look out for them. The queen of a beehive does not rule; she lays eggs. She does not mind the babies. She does not even do her own digesting, let alone getting the food. The attendants that surrond her are not continually bowing and scraping and saying: 'Your majesty;' they are feeding her with bee milk, secreted by glands in their heads. It is like the chyle poured into our blood, food so perfect that the queen does not need to leave the hive from time to time to keep it clean and sweet. She has to be fed continually, for at certain periods she has the power of producing from 2,000 to 3,000 eggs a day, twice her own weight four times, indeed, for more than half her weight in eggs. In her lifetime a very prolific queen will lay 1,500,000 eggs. Put each of these little grains, one-fourteenth of an inch long, end to end, and they will make a line of a mile and three-quarters. "She possesses the power of choos ing which of her offspring shall be drones and which workers. Some have thought that this was automatic, and that the narrower worker cell touched the button, so to speak, that brought forth a fertilized egg. But the queen will lay worker eggs in drone cells If she thinks fit, go that settles that. "If the drone is male and the queen female, what is the worker? The New Woman of Beedom. She has given up her motherhood for a business career. Sometimes, though, she lays eggs, but they always hatch out drones, of which it is strictly true to say: They have a mother, but no father. If the queen's wlnps are crippled so that she cannot make her marriage flight, her children are all drones. An Italian queen is a hive of black bees will beget workers of mixed blood, but her sons are pure Italians. Drones are useful as fath ers of workers, but they cannot collect the honey they eat. Their tongues are too short. "The vorm when it hstch8 out of the egg lies in Its cell surrounded by bee milk or 'royal jelly,' as it is called. As it grows in size and strength it it weaned, so to speak, by having the milk diluted more and more with pap made of pollen, honey and water, till It finally Uvea on grown bee diet. If the worker ig not weaned, If It lives on the fat of the land till It spins its co coon. It will be a queen. "What marveloua, 'what miraculous transformations occur In the progress Irom that tiny pearly egg, covered with a fine net like the stuff the women folks call 'blonde;' through the blind and legless grub that soaks its food in ag well as eats It; through the chry salis that lies tranced while the swell ings on Its shoulders change Into a double pair of gauzy wings and that ridge upon its breast it metamorphosed Into an Ingenious tongue, while the interior organs undergo profound mu tations, each step of which traces back through millions upon millions of con tributing ancestors." Alnslee's Maga zine. The Value of an Opera Box. Ownership of an opera box In the Metropolitan Opera house carries a financial aa well at a social advantage. The executort of the estate of Calvin S. Brice recently sold half a box for 136,000. The original coat of the box wat $30,000. Aside from the principle of $30,000 paid originally and the Interest charge able thereto, the cost for a season of opera to a boxholder It $3,000. Thlt It levied at an assessment on each box- holder. Boxes for tubscrlptlon per formance! at night rent for $125 and for matineet for $100. Next teaton the Income from thit touree would be $8,076 for the tubtcrlptlon perform ances If a box In "the horseshoe" thould be rented for each performance and the demand would eatily make that possible. In addition, however, there are tev- teen Saturday evening performancet and the various extra matineet and night perf.rmancea that are alwayt crowded Into the end of the teaton. Kent of tbete would easily make the income from a box $100,000 a year on the Mala of next teaton and others to come. Omaha Bee. CUBA'S FIRST BATTLESHIP. It Was Bought for 8 5 Never in an Encounter. "While there is a good deal of talk these days about Cuba," said the man who likes to converse, "it should not be forgotten that the man who was first to float the Cuban flag over an armed deck is in the United States and is not bloviating about it, either. He is Colo nel Prentiss Ingraham. author, travel er, goldier, sailor, and a lot of other things. In the summer of 1869 Colonel Ingraham bought, in New York city, for the large sum of $5, the steamer Hornet, which had once been the Lady Sterling, a blockade runner captured by the United States government and made a dispatch-boat for the service of President Lincoln. A wealthy Cuban living in"iew Y'ork had bought her from the government, and he sold her to Colonel Ingraham for $5 because he wanted to. Y'ou see she had to belong to somebody and Colonel Ingraham was the best man because he knew his busi ness. She made two trips to Cuba as a filibuster, carrying arms which she took on board at sea so as not to implicate the United States in any act against a friendly government, Spain being on terms with us at the time. Colonel In graham was in command. "In October of 1869 she cleared from Philadelphia for Liverpool and put in at Halifax under stress of weather, or so it was stated. Here she was met by Admiral Edward Higgins, an ex confederate officer, and formerly of the United States navy. The Hornet re mained in Halifax until suspicion point ed so strongly her way that the English authorities were about to seize her a second time, though she had already been searched and nothing had been found on her which she had no right to carry. She left Halifax in such a hurry that she was fired on from the forts, but got away all right, making the run to Caps Sable, 60 miles, in three hours. At sea Admiral Higgins ordered her course southward, and the 45 sailors on board mutinied, and there was a fight for the ship, the officers winning. Off Martha's Vineyard, the ship was met by several small vessels carrying arms and men, and these were taken on board, and the Hornet became a fully equipped vessel of war, having 26 officers, 300 men, and nine guns, one 100-pounder bow chaser, two 6-pounderg, four 30-pounders, and two 20-pounders. Once at sea with this equipment, Colonel Ingraham, who had been in command of her since her pur chase, turned her over to Admiral Hig gins. the officers received their com missions, Colonel Ingraham becoming commandant of marines, her name was changed to the Cuba, and Colonel In graham, with his own hands, raised the Cuban flag over her, being the first Cuban flag ever to go up over an arm ed deck of a Cuban vessel, and, by the way, there has not yet been another one. "Not long after this, a month or to, the Cuba was caught in a hurricane and had to put in at Wilmington, N. C, for coal. She had hard coal, which would not make steam, and soft was necesaary. The Spanish mail steamer, with $3,000,000 in treasure and ZOO Spanish officers from Cuba, had got away from her on this account, and this was worse than a hurricane. She was suspected by the authorities at Wil mington, and, though every effort was made to get away before she could be searched, It was impossible, as her en gines had been uncoupled for repairs, and she was captured. Admiral Hig gins surrendered her to Colonel Frank or the United States army, but refused to pull down his flag until he had been tried and the ship was finally confis cated. The trial lasted a month and re sulted in the acquittal of Higgins and Ingraham; the other officers were sent to Washington under bond and re leased later, and the men were paid off and discharged. The Cuba, however, was held and sent to New York, under command of Captain Maffltt, formerly of the famous Confederate privateer Florida, and she was later taken to Baltimore, where she was left to rot. I understand she is lying in the mud down there now, and, if she is, the Cubans ought to resurrect her and take her home. Colonel Ingraham Is now living in New York City." A Nice distinction. i if uiuiiiw aim uiue-t-yeu capti who takes the summer visitors on long and delightful sails in his pretiy boat the Phoebe Lou, has never grown rich, although his native town on "the Cape" is full of well-to-do people for'nearly four months every year. A newcomer to the place thinks he may have found the key to the captain's moderate cir cumstances. One day this young man had invited a party of a dozen to go as his guests for an "all-day cruise" with the captain. At the end of the excursion he found that In the hurry of the early start he had left his money at home. "I'll be down tomorrow the first thing, to pay you, captain," he said, re gretfully, "and I'm sorry I was so care less as to come off without my money today." "See here," said the captain, gravely tendering the young man a bulging wallet which he extracted from an in side pockets "if you'd fell any easier to settle your bill tonight I can lend ye the money well as not, and you can give It back whenever it's convenient, or let her run till another spring It's pretty near the end of the teaton, anyhow. I know how you feel about a regular bill. I always want to get 'em paid up toon at they're due." Pioneer Press. AND 80 EE DOES IT. But Re Wouldn't If There Were Any body Inferior to Him. Washington 8tar: "You have been with that firm a long tin," tald the old school friend. "Yet," answered the man with the patient expression of countenance. "What's your position?" "I'm an employe." "But what Is your official title?" "I haven't any official title. It's like this: When the proprietor wants some thing done he tells the cashier, and the cashier tells the bookkeeper, and the bookkeeper tells the assistant book keeper, and the assistant bookkeeper tells the chief clerk, and the chief clerk tells me." "And what then?" "Well, I haven't anybody to tell, to I have to so and do It" IEWS OF INTEREST TO KfXSWUn. Dakota Wants Turgoons. Lincoln, Neb. (Special.) Hearing on. the requisition from the governor of; South Dakota for C. W. Volaire and;' Adelore Turgeon, who reside . near Da kota City, will take place before Actinc, Governor Steele. They are charged? with shooting at a posse of South Da-, kota deputy sheriffs who attempted to. arrest them for trespassing. The de- fendants claim that the land is in Ne-( braska and that the Dakota authorities had no right to arrest them. They are' here in person to resist the process. The trouble all originated over the title and location of . certain pice ol', land that the Turgeons declared be- longed to Nebraska, while their op-', ponents declared belonged to their neighbors on the north. Mrs. S. S. Adams is the owner of a ' farm on the north side of the river.. She has held peaceable possession ever, since 1876. In 1897 a considerable piece, of iand was added to hers by the ac tion of the river. Whether this action j was sudden or gradual is a question, that is answered according to the point i of view. Naturally, Mrs. Adams de-' Clares it was gradual. The Turgeons declare that it was sudden. At least It was not long after Mrs. Adams secured her new possessions .. that the Turgeons began exercising' dominion over it. The difference grew and finally "Fred" Turgeon was ar rested and released only after a per petual injunction had been issued against him by the South Da- Kota courts enjoining him from in Shortly after this he tore down one of her fences, and was again, arrested, " this time on the charge of contempt of court. He was sentenced to a term . jii jan uui iimnagtu uj JllUKe. nis .co ca pe. Pile Cars In Ditch. P.e.-itrice, Neh. Train No. 97, west bound T:ock Island fast freight,' was. wrecked near Thompson, a small sta tion, about six miles west of Fairbury. No. 97 left Fairbury about 5:30 a. m.. and was in charge of Conductor Alcott and Engineer Neville, The train con sisted of thirty-five cars, an engine and caboose and was pulled by one of the new, heavy engines recently put In use by the road. The load consisted of merchandise and produce,' which was scattered in every direction when the cars were piled up In. the ditch. The recent heavy rains in this vi cinity had softened the roadbed and just as the big engine and train struck a hill two miles this side of Thompson the -rails spread and the tender and eighteen cars left the track and rolled into the ditch, which is very deep along this part of the road. The train was running at the rate of twenty-five' miles per hour and most of the cars were badly shattered. Ten tramps who were on their way to the Kansas wheat fields were riding, on the trucks of the train and one of them was caught between two cars' and crushed so badly that he will die. Two others were caught in the wreck--age and at last accounts their bodies were still in the wreck. The name of the injured man cannot be learned, as he was unconscious when taken to Fairbury for medical treatment, and, nothing by which he could be identi fied could be found about his person. Washington Notes. Washington, D. C (Special.) An nouncement is made by the civil serv ice commission that examinations for three rural carriers and substitutes will be held at York. Neb., July 26. The , successful applicants will have charge of the three rural routes that will be opened out of York on September 1.. They must be between 18 and 45 years and their applications must be filed before July 21 with the secretary ot the board at Y'ork. ....' Henry T. Clarke of Omaha, who is in' the city urging his old claim against the government for rent of certain buildings used prior to the building of Fort Crook, was presented to the.pres-. ident by ex-Senator Thurston. John T. Wertz, also of Omaha, accompanied '' them. . Pensions have been granted to the ' following Nebraskans: Increase, res toration, reissue, etc. Thomas Daw son, Virginia, $10; Frederick Myers,' Llncoln, $8; Jonathan F. Gates, He-, bron, 110. Original widows, etc. Em ma T. Copeland, University Place, $8.- . Otto A. Shanghorn has been reconi-' mended for postmaster at Fontanells-, ' Neb., by Representative Mercer. He will replace A. W. Sprech!' who hus resigned. ' ' ' The signal and engineering corps of the national guard which is located at Fremont will be a thoroughly equipped company. The organization has made a requisition for its equip ment and supplies" which are expected here very soon. The supplies Include a complete heliograph apparatus, ap paratus for wireless telegraphy, or dinary telegraph apparatus, surveying Instruments, drafting tools and other property, making an outfit equal to that of an engineering , and signal corps of the regular army, The com pany armed at present as Infantry, having Krag-Jorgenson rifles. Tho ranks of the company are filled and there are a number on the waiting' list. Baltimore American: "Yes," said Miss Qaddie, "when I told Mr. Frank that I was 25 he seemed surprised." "I believe he did ' Intimate that he couldn't reconcile that age with the way you talked." "Gracious, I hope he didn't consider my conversation too frivolous?" "Oh, no, he merely re' marked that you talked like sixty." The emperor of Japan Is to confer the highest decoration within his gift' upon Lord Salisbury In honor of the Anglo-Jspanese alliance.